Outrage as Christian cross REMOVED from Christmas tree as ‘religious symbols not allowed’

Dozens of shocked residents took to the streets armed with wooden crosses of their own, handing them out to passersby and placing some on the tree at the centre of the controversy.

The row broke out when town hall bosses in Knightstown in the US state of Indiana decided to remove the cross from the top of the tree after a lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.

The legal action was launched on behalf of Knightstown resident Joe Thompkins and stated the religious symbol should not be displayed on town

A council workman removes the cross from the Christmas tree in Knightstown, Indiana

It just made me sick to my stomach, literally sick to my stomach, when I come in and seen that the cross was down, seen that the cross was gone

Knightstown resident Lora Lewman

Council officials released a statement saying they did not think they could win the case and did not have the money to fight a costly legal battle so the cross was take down.

But their responses has provoked outrage in the small community.

Knightstown resident Lora Lewman, said: ”Where’s my rights to see the cross on the tree when I go down by here?

“It just made me sick to my stomach, literally sick to my stomach, when I come in and seen that the cross was down, seen that the cross was gone.” property.

Another local, Aaron Magee, said: “One man shouldn’t dictate how the rest of us express our religious freedoms. We have that freedom under the First Amendment.”Mr Thompkins has argued that the lawsuit is about the Constitution, specifically the First Amendment with regard to establishment of religion.

Pamela Geller is the President of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), publisher of PamelaGeller.com and author of The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America and Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance.

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The only way to counteract government stupidity and progressive political correctness, is by the community doing such as this one did, taking matters into their own hands and, within reason, enforcing community standards. No one has the right not to be offended. Those not like religious symbols are free to ignore them, those who like them are free to use them, with neither side of the discussion imposing their view on each other. Muslims have no problem forcing others to submit to there standards, it is time that changed.

Mahou Shoujo

If Joe Thompkins was tarred, feathered and run out of town on a rail, would the aclu defend those doing so’s right to freedom of expression like the suppression pertaining to the Christmas tree.

I went to the link you provided and read about the aclu. Nice deception on their part…almost as good as the lies Hillary has told.

soundclick.com/Globalfirm

As sadist, racist slaver tyrant, inventor of slavery of Africans, mass-murderer, crucifier, genital mutilationist, clitodirectomist, child-rapist & pederast who ‘kissed’ little boys’ penises & sucked boys’ lips & tongues, theist psychopath, who burned people alive for not praying or not being part of his conspiracy & to extort them, who gouged out eyes & cut off body-parts, gays-killer, Jews-killer, atheists-killer Muhammad’s conspiracy-guide commands to crucify anyone who critisizes his thejst manifest a cross is a symbol fro all those crucified by Islam for example lately by U.S.-armed Islamic State who crucified people daily during Ramadan-fasting.

An investigation has to take place.

They say Islam would be really peaceful to fool the people, arm Islam & plant it inside nations like now in Europe, Australia & the U.S.

We can have a global culture.
But it’s a fail to assume that a global culture has to be superficial & uncondemning about the Islam-Muhammadism-conspiracy & that prosperity can be just achieved if we work nationally in the U.S., Europe, & Australia instead of imperialistically for human rights globally.

We have to make clear that governance is no place for Nazis, violent nationalists or Muhammadists.

We have to make prosecutions & defend our honor & human rights in the long-term.

Where is the love?
Have we lost touch with reality?
We, as people have lost touch with love.

Love is what it should be all about.
From a love & not corrupt perspective we understand the social media posts that condemn the Muhammadism-conspiracy & defend Israel for human rights.

We are divided & made ineffective because of internationalism instead of globalism, because of regional languages instead of English.

We need a global, English language party & TV-channel to develop an effective human rights protecting culture that condemns the Muhammadism-conspiracy & in an imperialist way enacts ethics, that is human rights & ecology, globally.

We reject any forced idealization of sadist, racist slaver tyrant, inventor of slavery of Africans, mass-murderer, crucifier, genital mutilationist, clitodirectomist, child-rapist & pederast who ‘kissed’ little boys’ penises & sucked boys’ lips & tongues, theist psychopath, who burned people alive for not praying, for not being part of his conspiracy & to extort them, who gouged out eyes & cut off body-parts, gays-killer, Jews-killer, atheists-killer Muhammad on people.

The constitution is out of touch with reality & love if it doesn’t condemn sadist, racist slaver tyrant, inventor of slavery of Africans, mass-murderer, crucifier, genital mutilationist, clitodirectomist, child-rapist & pederast who ‘kissed’ little boys’ penises & sucked boys’ lips & tongues, theist psychopath, who burned people alive for not praying, for not being part of his conspiracy & to extort them, who gouged out eyes & cut off body-parts, gays-killer, Jews-killer, atheists-killer Muhammad & doesn’t ban the Islam-conspiracy.

A national constitution that lacks the global big picture about Islam is TREASON.

We need to look globally & protect the people from Islam instead of letting politicians arm the Islam-tyrannies, instead of letting those politicians organize Muhammadism-conspiracy imperialism invasion & letting those politicians force the glorification of sadist, racist slaver tyrant, inventor of slavery of Africans, mass-murderer, crucifier, genital mutilationist, clitodirectomist, child-rapist & pederast who ‘kissed’ little boys’ penises & sucked boys’ lips & tongues, theist psychopath, who burned people alive for not praying, for not being part of his conspiracy & to extort them, who gouged out eyes & cut off body-parts, gays-killer, Jews-killer, atheists-killer Muhammad on children, citizens & the world.

Ban Islam, save lives.
Close the mosques, confiscate the Korans.

Muslims know Islam is not ethical, that’s why it’s only right to them to ban Islam.

People with a mind-mix of no love & consequently uncondemning attitude towards Islam have made us be open to a culture that is open to hate against Africans, Jews, Christians, non-Muslims, atheists, women, children, gays, open to enslavement of Africans & girls, rape, crucifixions, stonings, gouging out of eyes, institutionalized & self-inititated decapitations, torture, amputations, clitodirectomies, circumcision, animal torture, pillaging, robbing, burning people alive, according imperialism & war.

We have been lulled into culture of superficiality, products, bad music, nationalism, admiration for Islam, for Muhammad.

We need to integrate ourselves to Islam & Islamic regions by banning Islam, enacting love & human rights, freeing the imprisoned, the Africans enslaved, girls & women forced to sex-slave-marriage & NOT the other way around.

The pathological tolerance for Islam has become a collective dangerous mind-control movement we know from Muhammadism-conspiracy imperialism regions & the Nazi-Muhammadism-conspiracy of Adolf Hitler & Amin el-Husseini that has to be be stopped NOW.

There are those that claim to fight against Nazis but fight for the Nazis:
History is being scrubbed from Hitler’s partnership with Muhammadism-conspiracy Ottoman empire general, Grandmufti of Jerusalem Amin El-Husseini who led the Nazis & Nazi-Muhammadist troops, his nephew Arafat called him the great leader.

Barack Hussein Obama promotes Muhammadism-conspiracy army Boko Haram, who murder, burn alive 100?’s of 1000’s of people as having “legitimate concerns”

& blocked an Israeli arms helicopter-deal to Nigeria to fight Boko haram before the Muhammadist president.

Why do they need money to fight the case? Just ignore the lawsuit, and refuse to obey any judicial edicts. How is the judge going to enforce them if the mayor, police and deputies refuse?

Sgtsnuffy

EXCELLENT POINT . WHAT THE FED JUDGE GONNA DO CALL OUT THE NATIONAL GUARD OR MARINES ?????? HELL THE LOCAL JUSTICE OF THE PEACE SHOULD TAKE IT UPON THEM SELF TO OVERRIDE THE FED USING THE TENTH AMENDMENT . THE TWON SHOULD NEVER HAVE FOLDED LIKE THEY DID THEY TOWN COUNSEL SHOULD HAVE PUT UP BIG BANNERS THAT SAID COME AND TAKE IT !!!!!

Merchantseamen

I have stated the same for years go ahead and sue, we will not show up. Your move…

Shinn Diggle

Liberty Council will defend this city! All they have to do is to call them

LC.org

Sgtsnuffy

IF IT HAD BEEN THE ISLAMIC STAR AND CRESCENT MOON IT WOULD STILL BE SHINING BRIGHT . IT’S ONLY CHRISTIANS THAT THAT DIRT BAG HATES . THAT CROSS HAS BEEN ON THAT TREE FOR DECADES PROBABLY BEFORE THE BASTARD WAS BORN .IT BROUGHT IRREPARABLE HARM TO HIM AND HE WANTS MONETARY DAMAGES ???? HE’S LUCKY HE LIVES IN TODAYS TIME FRAME CAUSE 120 YEARS AGO THE TOWNS PEOPLE WOULD HAVE TARRED AND FEATHER THE PANTY WASTE AND RUN HIM OUT OF TOWN ON A RAIL .

AlgorithmicAnalyst

Stop contributing to phony charities.

Keith

Does Joe Thompkins celebrate christmas, if so why is he celebrating the birth of a man that Christians consider the son of God? If he is celebrating the birth of this man why is he offended by the cross on top of a tree? Why isn’t he offended by the tree itself and all the other decorations that must be around the town?
Hypocrite and uneducated are the two words that spring to my mind when I read articles like this.

KimWilde

Time to ban the aclu & splc. We need to rid our Country of those that work to destroy it. Everyone has the right to not like something or someone but not be able to enforce one persons views on everyone else.

Toy Pupanbai

Surely, they will have to remove the Christ’s Mass tree as well?
I look forward to the annual Menorah being removed from the vicinity of the White house!

Stephen Honig

I’m glad to see yesterday that when Trump spoke in WI., he had Christmas trees behind him and a sign at the podium saying “Merry Christmas” For 8 years I had to see Muslim decor.

joe1429

FU… Atheists

IzlamIsTyranny

If they weren’t hypocrites who were obviously on the take to islamic petrodollars and advancing the islamic agenda I wouldn’t mind that they were atheists.

IzlamIsTyranny

Neither Yeshua nor any of his disciples found the crucifix to be holy. After all, in their day it was a commonplace device of Roman execution used across the empire. The earliest symbol of Christianity was the fish.

Dave from San Antonio

I grew up in Indiana. I didn’t know it had become this cowardly and had gone this far toward communism. The ACLU used to be pretty good, where all our civil rights and Constitutional rights were concerned, but now…it seems to have joined forces with the SPLC in a war on Christianity and all our God-given rights.

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